What Have You Just Ordered or Received?

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 03 Feb 2008, 17:20

Won on ebay:

CTHD R3 DVD

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 04 Feb 2008, 09:23

Alien Quadrilogy - £9.99

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 04 Feb 2008, 11:42

EvaUnit02 wrote:
Yi-Long wrote:Was the 8800GT discounted? Cause pretty soon the newest cards will be released, right?
The price of that card has settled since it was released last November, that's all. The 9600GT 512MB will be released fairly soon, but it'll still be slower than the 8800GT 512MB.

I'm thinking of buying HP pc which has the 8800GT installed, but not sure yet.
Just get it or the ATI Radeon 3870 now. Those cards will the sweet spot for the price to performance ratio for quite some time to come.

Thanks. Yeah, I'll probably pick a new PC up in 2-3 weeks.
Also, some shops are now selling pc's with 2 8800GT's (512) in them, so maybe I'll pick one of those up.
Biggest problem is that some of the PC I've seen and liked, still only use a 32 bit system and 32 bit Vista

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 04 Feb 2008, 12:13

Yi-Long wrote: Also, some shops are now selling pc's with 2 8800GT's (512) in them, so maybe I'll pick one of those up.

Don't bother with SLI or Crossfire, they're more trouble than their worth. A non-tech saavy person like yourself should definitely avoid them. Just get a single card.

It normally takes Nvidia a week to release a driver with a working SLI profile for a game, and in some cases even longer for ATI to do the same. (Politics. Eg developers being in Nvidia's back pocket, so there's a purposeful delay in giving code to the ATI driver team.) Then they often have to put out a newer driver with a new SLI profile when a game is patched.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 04 Feb 2008, 13:29

The Great Escape
Sleeping Beauty Deluxe Ed.
Predator 2 SE

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 04 Feb 2008, 13:55

The 5.1 remix of Vertigo is truly abysmal, worse than T1's.

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 04 Feb 2008, 13:59

grim_tales wrote:My Young Auntie (Dragon Dynasty)

Isn't it supposed to have the wrong audio track on it?

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 04 Feb 2008, 16:23

Yes but I havent seen the movie, I just got it in a trade. Sometimes I'm not too picky.

Eva is there a DVD of Vertigo with the original mono on it?

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 04 Feb 2008, 21:00

R1 remaster.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 04 Feb 2008, 21:31

Oh. Thanks. I guess if I like the movie I will upgrade, it was only £3 or something.
I cant find that on Amazon/Pacific etc.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 05 Feb 2008, 10:44

Vanilla Sky R1
The Very Best of One Foot In The Grave
Zhou Yu's Train

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 05 Feb 2008, 19:42

Also received:

Eastern condors (Lovefilm/CD WOW rental)

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 06 Feb 2008, 03:59

Received and installed over the past few days:-
Nvidia Geforce 8800GT 512MB
Auzen X-fi Prelude

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 06 Feb 2008, 04:06

EvaUnit02 wrote:R1 remaster.

It's bloody expensive at £50 though

As I told you Grim it's only in the R1 Remastered box set

. Which for me kills it. I don't want all the Hitchcock films. All separate releases no matter where you buy them only have DD5.1.

p.s - The 5.1 remix is fine IMO.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 06 Feb 2008, 05:33

bradavon wrote:p.s - The 5.1 remix is fine IMO.

No, it's a fucking travesty. They've redone ALL of the foley effects and used entirely different elements to recreate Bernard Herrmann's score.

Bob Harris may've saved the Vertigo's original elements from destruction, but his DTS remix is criminal beyond words.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 06 Feb 2008, 10:16

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon R3
The Man Who Knew too Much

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 06 Feb 2008, 11:13

The CTHD R3 subs look to be the same as the R2 subs.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 06 Feb 2008, 12:28

grim_tales wrote:The CTHD R3 subs look to be the same as the R2 subs.

you needed the initial region 3 release to get the best subs.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 06 Feb 2008, 13:09

Thats long OOP I gather.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 07 Feb 2008, 11:50

Today i received:

Alien Quadrilogy
Simpsons S10

Lourdes · Post by **Lourdes** » 07 Feb 2008, 15:43

2x Dell 2407WPF A04's

Warrantyy replacements for the 2405FPW's I got 3 years ago for a combined £700..... :mrgreen:

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 11 Feb 2008, 11:12

Ace Ventura 1/2 R1 Remastered Double Pack

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 11 Feb 2008, 22:24

Just received my modded xbox, and with a 250 gb HD.

I'm so glad I finally had it done.

I had 2 xboxes, with 1 being defective (error 16), and so I wanted them both to be modded and equiped with a larger HD. Sadly, the error 16 xbox couldnt get fixed because of the broken HD, and thus being unable to obtain the security code.
So I need to have that one modded with a chip, so the securitycode will be bypassed. So I need to get that done one of these weeks as well, after which I will call this guy up again to install the mediacenter and programs etc.

Ah well... now I'll probably be up all night copying my games to the HD.

Very speedy service btw. I called him at 7pm, and he picked them up, took them his house, modded them, and brought them back at about 10.30 pm. Fantastic

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 11 Feb 2008, 22:39

There's life in the old dog yet then Yi

A 250GB Hard disk on an Xbox, just nutty!

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 11 Feb 2008, 23:43

bradavon wrote:There's life in the old dog yet then Yi

A 250GB Hard disk on an Xbox, just nutty!

Yeah... but I felt it was needed. I have over 40 or 50 BOUGHT games for the system, and I dont wanna risk not being able to play them anymore because of a faulty diskdrive or a broken HD, so I had it fixed and I want a back-up 'fixed' xbox as well.

It's too bad that my save-games from my error 16 xbox are gone though. I had some great goals from Pro Evo (plus lots of edited stuff), and ofcourse my Ninja Gaiden Black, which I had finished, but now I must start over

!
NBA Street 3v

, SSX3

, GTA's

, etc etc etc...
Such a major bummer. Need to start everything over from scratch.

Ah well... hopefully this fixed Xbox will last me a long time. Plus it's now region-free, so I dont have to plug in my crappy cheap dvd player to watch region 1 or region 3 discs.